Additionally, the winners of the Rollo May Scholarship will be announced, as will Dissertation Award winners.

Interim President Robert Schmitt will preside, and incoming President Mark Schulman will be in attendance. Honorary degrees will be bestowed on Jill Zohara Meyeroff Hieronimus and Milton Schwebel, who will give presentations.

LIOS Graduate College will hold its graduation on June 21, 2010, beginning at 1 p.m. at the Bastyr Chapel. 39 students will receive MAs. LIOS president Shelley Drogin will preside, and LIOS graduate Doreen Cato will offer the keynote address and receive an honorary degree.

This month Saybrook University will award three honorary degrees to individuals recognized for representing a substantial body of work and high achievement in disciplines that embrace the University’s values and principles:

Jill Zohara Meyerhoff Hieronimus

Milton Schwebel, PhD

Doreen Cato, PhD

Honorary degrees will be awareded to Ms. Hieronimus and Dr. Schwebel at the commencement ceremony for the Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies on June 13 and to Dr. Cato at the commencement ceremony for LIOS Graduate College on June 22

Saybrook University’s Board of Trustees will hold an open board meeting on Friday, June 11, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Residential Conference. The meeting will take place in the Aspen Room, Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel. All members of the community are welcome to attend.

Saybrook University and the Existential Humanistic Institute are pleased to announce that Kirk Schneider and Orah Krug will be speaking about their most recent publication, Existential-Humanistic Therapy, on Thursday night at Saybrook’s June Residential Conference.

Existential-Humanistic Therapy provides an in-depth survey of contemporary existential-humanistic (E-H) theory, practice, and research. In particular, this uniquely American version of existential therapy, currently experiencing a renaissance, highlights E-H therapy’s historical development, theoretical underpinnings, and practical applications alongside the very latest in process and outcome research. This is the first text in existential-humanistic therapy to be published by the American Psychological Association, and as such, represents recognition of the E-H approach. Kirk Schneider and Orah Krug will sign books after their presentation.

Every 70 seconds, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, that means that there could be up to 16 million Americans with Alzheimer’s by 2050 – and that’s only one of many different kinds of dementia that afflict the elderly.

In the most literal sense possible, what are we going to do with all these people who can’t do for themselves?

For the most part, they get their physical needs met: hospitals and clinics and care workers and families are increasingly good at helping people with dementia eat and bathe and take their medicine.

But what about their psychological needs? Does dementia condemn someone to a life of confusion, loneliness, and solitude?

“People with dementia are present, they live in the moment, and they still want to be met, noticed, related to,” says Doris Bersing, an expert on the psychology of aging and a faculty member in Saybrook’sPsyD program. When people with dementia aren’t related to, their confusion often becomes depression and anger – the way anyone’s does.

Over 40 years ago some of the greatest minds in 20th century psychology and human science gathered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut to start a movement. The term “humanistic psychology” had recently been coined by Abraham Maslow and Anthony Sutich: the attendees at the Old Saybrook conference believed it was an intellectual movement that could transform culture for the better.

Over the next few years, this movement would produce a notable body of literature, an academic journal (the Journal of Humanistic Psychology), and – on June 9, 1971, the date on which Saybrook was officially established and incorporated – an independent graduate college, that ultimately evolved to become Saybrook University.

In 2011, Saybrook will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its establishment as an independent graduate institution, having helped to support the development of humanistic psychology, expand humanistic thought into new fields, and create a community of thought leaders who are changing the world. Saybrook faculty and alumni have briefed the UN and the White House, led international aid programs, served as citizen diplomats, presented important ideas in psychology, and helped lead the current revolution towards a mind-body approach to medicine. Always, they have been in the intellectual vanguard pushing to connect us where the world polarizes us.

The Leonard Shlain Scholarship Fund supports the work of students doing research in the areas explored in Former Saybrook Trustee Dr. Leonard Shlain’s books: creativity, the development of the human brain, art and science, and human sexuality. There are two annual awards of $1,500 each.

The scholarship awardees will be presented copies of Dr. Shlain’s best-selling three books: Art and Physics: The Parallel Visions of Space, Time and Light,Alphabet Vs. The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image and Sex, Time & Power: How Woman’s Sexuality Shaped Human Development, as well as his fourth book about Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo’s Brain: The Right - Left Roots of Creativity that will be published in the near future. The students will be encouraged to utilize Dr. Shlain’s findings in their doctoral research.

Saybrook is proud to sponsor the 17th annual International Transpersonal Conference, to be held in Moscow from June23-27.

The mission of the conference is to present, both experientially and didactically, breakthrough discoveries revealing the fundamental role of consciousness in all human affairs, and the value for humanity of our growing insights into the nature of consciousness and the world.

Covering themes from “A New Cartography of the Human Psyche” to “Consciousness and the New Paradigm in Science” and “Transpersonal Psychology and Higher Education,” the ITC conference is expected to draw over 500 participants from over 50 countries. It will feature a wide range of globally recognized speakers, including Stanley Krippner, a faculty member at Saybrook’s Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies.

Upon its conclusion, the conference will present several volumes documenting its proceedings with papers covering not only a comprehsive overview of the forty years of the transpersonal paradigm through the voices of its founders and pioneers, but also outline its future perspectives through the work presented by the conference's keynote speakers, artists, and spiritual teachers.